Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Sunglasses Day!

Today is Sunglasses Day! Summer is also in full swing, so what better 
way to celebrate than to rock our sunglasses for an entire day? Here's 
a little history on how sunglasses came about.
In prehistoric times, the Inuit peoples wore the first pair of shades 
when they wore flattened walrus ivory "glasses", looking through 
narrow slits to block harmful sun rays. By the turn of the 20th 
century, silent movie actors wore them while filming to shield their 
eyes from bright stage lights. Then in 1929, entrepreneur Sam Foster 
mass-produced the modern version.
So, enjoy today and don't forget to wear your favorite pair of 
sunglasses!